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Fusion Stats - Contact details for further information

Cyber_RIPPER — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:02:39 GMT

If you have any question or queries regarding Fusion Stats, please email me (chris.magee@gametheworld.com) for more information.

Fusion & Smartlaunch: Almost one year of stats and great experiences...

hellenica — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:48:34 GMT

Hello all...

I joined the GameTheWorld (GTW) family as a Franchisee, and I just wanted to throw that out there as a disclaimer, but I am not being paid to say any of this stuff, nor have I asked permission to say anything I am about to say... from anyone.

There is a global recession going on right now, and it seems every week I see a msg on the boards that someone is closing, someone is selling there stuff and what not. But you won't see me doing that anytime soon. Now while I will admit my revenue has taken a 7% to 10% hit depending on which months of 2009 you look at, because of the use of Fusion Stats I can still put asses in seats.

Thats really all I wanted to say really. The software works, the team behind it are honest folks who take pride in their work (thanks to Chris and his "minions") and I am very glad that I have invested in this product and this team called GTW and SL.

If you guys wanna take a look at our Stats, we have 4 stores in CY, we run our Fusion server every day, and its uber cool.

Asses in seats people its all about asses in seats.

:-)

Our website is going for an overhaul this week, so check back later in the week for more changes, and also ask me anything you want about my experiences...

Ciao.

-Panos

Early Adopters Program (EAP)

gtw-azrael — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:40:58 GMT

Hi everyone,

In the start of 2009 we (GTW) will be giving out the "GTW Stats Package" (formerly known as Fusion) out to centers for £50 for 30-days with no obligation. The fee is to cover installation, any tech support needed and man hours for product improvement going-on the feedback the Stats Package receives. I would invite any center owners/staff to take a look at the PDF even if at first glance you think that it is not something you would like your center to be part of.

I have made up the following PDF which outlines everything the GTW Stats Package does. The software has been running successfully in our centers for over 2 years and we have now finished preparing it for use in other centers. The tool can be installed in under an hour and training needed is minimal.

As mentioned in the PDF the stats for your center can easily be displayed on your website however we are also working on a new GAMETHEWORLD Beta and "LAN Stats Ladder" website where gamers from LAN centers across the world can compare their skills.

At the moment our Beta site is seeing stats of players from the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus and the US all being compared on one instantly updating ladder. I will soon release details of the site for anyone who is interested to take a look.

[b][url=http://www.gametheworld.com/software/downloads/stats_package_ver1.1.pdf]GTW Stats Package PDF[/url][/b]

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, my details are at the bottom of the post.
I hope everyone has had a good holiday period and I'm looking forward to a productive 2009.

Az

Fusion LAN gaming stats software... my experience from a 2 month trial...

hellenica — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:48:14 GMT

Hello from Cyprus...

my name is Panos. I own and operate three gaming centers in Cyprus. Originally I was only going to write my notes in Greek, but no one responded in the Greek-only attempt, so I am writing in English as well.

I want to be candid about two things before I go on... firstly I am biased in favor of Fusion. Not because I am getting paid or anything like that... its just really well designed. Secondly I want to volunteer that I am a big fan of the Greek team of Smartlaunch... Oleg and his minions... :-) I have to openly say that if not for his enthusiasm... well I don't know if I would stick with SL...

Now here are the top 5 reasons why I like Fusion:

1. It works
========

If you want proof check out my website [url=http://www.vig.com.cy/demo/index.php?module=info&id=PEDROKI] [b]HERE[/b][/url]. Please keep in mind at the end of August we will be posting a technology demonstrator, which shows off much more of the Fusion capabilities.

2. It changes the way you do business
=============================

As a gaming center owner one of my biggest problem is that just as my kids gets really into a game, another game comes along. That means new licenses, new installations, new SL configurations and all that stuff. With this software its no longer about the game, but the competition.

3. Chris & Andy & Oleg
=================

The three best reasons to adopt this software is these three guys. In the last two months they have done everything possible to help my company adapt to Fusion, and perfect it for my business model.

4. Price
======

Its not expensive, and it pays for itself. My Year-On-Year revenue has increased approximately 15% despite a slowing down of the Cypriot economy in the months I have been testing Fusion. I wish I was authorized to discuss cost, but I do not work for Game The World (the company that designs Fusion). What I can say is that the software pays for itself through Return on Investment.

5. Integration in Smart Launch
=======================

It works with SL directly as a plugin. Setting up "Stats" servers for competitions is a 3-step process that took my staff 2 days to learn. Fusion reads the relevant info from SL, and then gets the rest of the data from the game itself.

Too bad you priced yourself out of the market

ixian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:37:22 GMT

Fusion looks like it could have some use, although I'd need a lot more proof than just a couple game centers claiming it magically increased their ROI before I believed some of the claims.

It doesn't matter however, because from the looks of it a 30 seat cafe would pay anywhere from $60-100 USD a month for this software. I don't know how much you know about the sorry state of the US gaming center market but all I can say is...good luck with that. Even overseas, where presumably cafes are more profitable, that is way too much.

I'd pay maybe $250 USD one time for a module that added functionality like this claims to, assuming it works. Subscription? No way, and I know I am far from the only one.

Fusion In Action

gtw-azrael — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:02:41 GMT

Hey all,

To give a view of our standard gaming centre setup we have 1 Admin machine (used to add game time, website administration, financials etc), 1 Server machine (used to run all game servers, holding database information, etc) and the gaming machines.

For me as a competition runner in 14 Multiplayer e-Sports Centres it is extremely important that I am “on the same page” as every other centre when preparing for events. Having a unified way of creating and managing LAN servers on the admin machine in every centre is a great thing. We have a number of centres where the staff members would not be able to remotely connect to their server machine, edit config files, remember the commands for gametype editing etc. However Fusion grants all the editing abilities you could ever need for a server in an extremely easy to understand UI.

To put it bluntly, to change a map, you click, change map.

Having this feature opens up a lot of opportunities for staffing. Centre managers can run centres without needing to hire people who are gaming proficient or have good computer knowledge as standard and can instead hire staff who may be better at running in centre events such as birthday parties, competitions, etc. Having such simple server control also means no time is wasted when it comes to looking after your games. This is going to sound cliché and in the world of income and expenditures it may have little weight in a some of your minds but a centre atmosphere is EVERYTHING to a gaming centre to us at GTW.

If your members enjoy the centre and the feeling they get from playing they will play more, FACT. In my experience I have seen groups of 4 or 5 friends coming in and setting up their own games and working away but once they discover that then can connect to everyone in the building or online the experience becomes far more enjoyable for them. The Fusion Stats Package brings together the best aspects of gaming in a LAN centre and makes them visible to everyone.

Please find in my next post a 1 minute video giving you a super fast overview of what goes on inside the Fusion Stats Package.

Soon to follow will be in-depth details on each feature inside the Fusion Stats Package to let you guys get a full understanding of what the package can provide.

Introduction and Fusion Overview

gtw-azrael — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:52:43 GMT

Hi everyone,

My name is Adam “aZrael” Drummond and I am the Events manager for GAMETHEWORLD (GTW). I am posting this thread to give everyone on the forums some insight into using the Fusion Stats Package at ground level along with a complete overview of the modules.

I will make it clear that I do work for GTW and have done for the past 3 years. I started out as an Admin in my local centre and I have run competitions, events, leagues and ladders for a long time on every level of the business. I have also been part of the Fusion Testing, helping GTW’s Developers produce an extremely functional and easy to use product.
In this thread I will be posting a couple of Screencasts of fusion in the very near future as promised by Chris “Cyber_RIPPER” Magee.

I am 110% open to all questions and I will do my best to answer questions on the functionality of Fusion and if a certain point is raised I can even hit you guys with a Screencasts of a specific element that is particularly interesting to you.

Just to give you guys a feel of what I will be talking about and also what will be included in the videos here is a list of some of the “Modules” that are contained within the Fusion Stats Package and Fusion Control Panel and also some of the questions that are being asked:

• Perpetual automatic competitions
• How can player/customers view their stats?
• Can my players’ stats be displayed on my website?
• How quickly do the stats appear online?
• What games does Fusion Stats cover?
• Built-in Game Server Management Tool
• Built-in handicap system
• Built-in loyalty system
• Stats Competitions for any period you define

At the heart of the Fusion Stats Package is a real-time statistics & ranking module specifically designed to increase the profits in a gaming centre while making it really easy for staff to create a competitive buzz that will drive customers in through your door. Once players have experienced the statistics challenge, they will be much less satisfied playing at home or in a non-Fusion centre as they will not be gaining accolades, becoming recognised “heroes” within the community or winning prizes.

Players automatically earn Stats & Skill points as they play and then can immediately see where they stand on the centre’s local ladder … or across centres from around the world.

A player’s gaming ability is accurately measured by their skill points which are visible for everyone to see. No gamer wants to leave the centre if he’s just been overtaken in the rankings; everyone wants to get above their friends. Each gamer is determined to prove that they are the best … and they can also earn prizes, ranks and respect for their achievements. Top Ranked players command respect on entering the centre, and fear when they enter the battlefield.

“I’m better than you” is a powerful motivator for your centre’s gaming community … it’s one of the key reasons why gamers leave their at-home systems.

This is, of course, fantastic for a centre’s business because, by allowing players to earn points, gain ranks, overtake other players, achieve respect and win prizes; Fusion adds a World of Warcraft type of ‘leveling-up’ addiction to all the games we support. This sensation of achievement combined with inherent fun of the game is the long term winning combination and it’s fully integrated with Smartlaunch!

In the next thread please find details on how I feel Fusion directly affects me within the Multiplayer e-Sports centres that I work with day in and day out.

Yeez gamings experience with Fusion...

muffmuff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:30:59 GMT

I'm working on a gaming center in Sweden called YEEZ Gaming and we have tried out fusion just in beta and I can already now tell you its amazing! Even though we hadn't released it to our customers yet 'with prizes' (dealing with hardware-sponsors) its already had a big impact on them.

Almost everyone is talking about what ranking they have on the ladder and its spreading like a disease :) It's like big competition running every day and the best of all - you don't need to supervise it or do anything!

One other great thing is that the stats are based on the SL-user and not for example steam-id or name in-game and from what I know there is no game-statistics app that can do the same.

But what I like the most about Fusion is the great support! I have never ever met so nice and helpful people. And the best of all, they are adding features continuously. Which I see will keep the customers happy and playing more over much periods of longer time.

We at YEEZ Gaming have searched for an application like this for over a year and now we have found it. Why reinvent the wheel?

To the people that have doubts about fusion, just try it out and see how great it is! For the effect it could have on your business its cheap and there is no long contract.

Fusion FAQ

Cyber_RIPPER — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:28:45 GMT

This is a list of the most Frequently Asked Questions on Fusion and their answers. I will keep this list up-to-date!

[b]Who owns the intellectual property of Fusion?[/b]

GAMETHEWORLD owns Fusion. We developed it organically over the last 3 years. Fusion is actually a collection of tools that allows us to run our business effectively and Fusion Stats is one of its major components.

It’s worth noting that we have over 20 other big software components specifically designed for gaming centres. We are testing the market’s reaction to Fusion Stats before making any of the other commercially available.

[b]What is GAMETHEWORLD?[/b]

GAMETHEWORLD runs the largest chain/franchise of Multiplayer e-Sports centres in the Western World. We, at the time of writing, have 17 operational centres. We have six more about to go live soon and our schedule over the next 18 months has us scaling up to 200. To date we are surpassing our targets.

Our business has been built, refined, tweaked and tested using our in house software products. Without these tools there is no way we could have grown to the size we have with little or no growing pains.

[b]Is Fusion part of Smart Launch?[/b]

Fusion is not written or supported by Smartlaunch. It is however a plug-in for Smartlaunch so it easily integrates with the tools you use day in and day out!

[b]Is Panos Marcoullis (Hellenica) affiliated with GTW in any official capacity?[/b]

No. Panos contacted us through the Smartlaunch forum and requested more information about Fusion Stats. We offered him a trial with the software - with the condition that he could be used as a case study and a point of contact should anyone want to talk to someone outside of GAMETHEWORLD about Fusion Stats.

[b]Who else is using / trialling Fusion?[/b]

All of our GTW centres (currently 17) run as franchisees and therefore pay for Fusion Stats. We also have non GTW centres over here (the UK) running stats, probably the biggest and most well known being ‘Gamerbase’ in London.

As far as trials go - we also have a centre from Sweden called Yeez Gaming trying out the stats and they are so happy with it that they want to use all of our software modules. It is worth noting they used to use HLStats.

As a lot of your guys here are American you might be more interested in US centres. Two US trials are about to go live with CyGamZ & gigabitslan. We also have a good relationship forming with eBash too (they are looking at our Stats package and more).

[b]Will there be a Fusion website?[/b]

There will be a central place created so that your users can be ranked along side centres from all around the World. It is in the final stages of development and will be available soon.

[b]How much does Fusion cost? [/b]

Fusion costs 1€ / Smartlaunch User that uses the stats / month. This is only for the first 100 centres that come on board at this stage. This means that you could have 50 of your users playing on the stats all month long (in our supported games) for €50.

[b]Where is GTW located?[/b]

GAMETHEWORLD was formed and has its strongest presence in Ireland. We are taking the franchise offering globally and we already have deals in place to make this happen over the next two months.

[b]What do I get for the cost of Fusion?[/b]

I will try to keep this short and concise:
- Integration with Smartlaunch (to control your servers and stats),
- Stats collect under your players SL Usernames (no HLStats name hacking, etc),
- Stats from multiple games group into a single player profile,
- A customer rewards scheme – you choose how many stats points gets your users each of your prizes and customers work towards earning them.
- A customer handicapping system – the stats gets progressively harder the higher up the ladder you go – mean that good player have to work harder and player more AND new players get the great ‘moving up the ladder’ feeling early on.
- The ability to define different timescales and work competitions around them. You can for example break your statistics up into different seasons and filter the winners into the Hall of Fame.
- On going support and development of Fusion which includes among other things support for new games.

This list is in the interest of this FAQ not getting MASSIVE will be covered in a topic by itself… but those will give you food for thought!

Fusion in 25 words or less...

hellenica — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:49:26 GMT

Its an in-game SL-user based statistics capturing program that works with CoD4, CoD2, Q3 and CS:S. Captured stats are then web published in real-time.

If hyphenated words count as one word... then I made it.

:-)

Panos

Fusion gaming statistics software trial update (16/09/2008)

hellenica — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:34:45 GMT

Hi...

Pursuant to a verbal agreement that I have with GAMETHEWORLD, I am posting as an attachment the first two months of YoY (Year on Year) results for my gaming centers after using the Fusion software platform. My centers are located within the Republic of Cyprus, an EU member state.

I am happy to answer any questions regarding Fusion.

Em: panos.marcoullis@hellenica.net

Ph-US: +001 202 657 4630

Ph-EU: +357 99 045 137

Kind Regards,

Panos

Fusion has arrived!!!

hellenica — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:58:12 GMT

[url=http://forum.smartlaunch.net/Topic18258-27-1.aspx?Highlight=Fusion] In English [/url]

[url=http://forum.smartlaunch.net/Topic18241-27-1.aspx?Highlight=Fusion] In Greek [/url]

Fusion has arrived!!!

-Panos

LAN gaming stats software (Fusion) has arrived...

hellenica — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:01:03 GMT

Fusion has landed...

hellenica — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:59:21 GMT

Στατιστικά για παιχνίδια LAN στο website σου...

hellenica — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:42:18 GMT

Γεια σας απο Κύπρο.

Το όνομα μου ειναι Πάνος. Είμαι λιγότερο από ένα χρόνο με Smart Launch και διευθύνο τρία LAN gaming centers στην Κύπρο. Εώς το τέλος του 2008 θα έχουμε άλλα δύο centers online. Από των Μαίο μέχρι σήμερα τεστάρο το Fusion, ένα γαμμάτο πρόγραμμα για LAN gaming stats.

Θα είμαι ειλικρινής μαζί σας ότι είμαι φανατικός της Fusion, αν και δεν δουλεύω για την Game The World, την κατασκευάστρια εταιρία. Θα σας πω κι'όλας ότι συμπαθώ πολύ την ομάδα του SmartLaunch.gr που δουλεύη πολύ στενά με την Game The World για την προώθηση του Fusion στην Ελλάδα.

Γι'αυτό τον λόγο ετοιμάζω ένα δείγμα τεχνολογίας (technology demonstrator) που θα εφαρμόσο στο [url=http://www.vig.com.cy/]http://www.vig.com.cy/[/url] εώς το τέλος του Αυγούστου 2008. Αυτό το ΔΤ θα εφαρμοστεί με βοήθεια από την Game The World. Δυστυχώς λόγο περιορισμένον resources το ΔΤ θα είναι 'by invitation only'. Μετά απο τις πρώτες 100 εγγραφές απότι καταλάμβαίνω η Game The World θα το πλασάρη το Fusion σε όλη την Ελλάδα, άλλα η πρώτοι 100 subscribers θα πάρουν την πιο ελκυστική προσφορά.

Anyway, αυτά δεν με αφορούν εμένα. Εγώ θέλω να σας δείξω την δύναμη την προσφορας του Fusion στο gaming center σας μέσω της δικής μου εμπείριας. Από τώρα μεχρι τα τέλη Σεπτεμβρίου είμαι στην διάθεση σας για να απαντήσω σε αυτό το forum τα ερωτηματά σας.

Για τώρα πάρτε ένα μικρό δειγματάκι -

[center] [url=http://www.vig.com.cy/demo/index.php?module=info&id=PEDROKI] Μικρό Δειγματάκι [/url] [/center]

Εάν θέλετε να λάβετε πρόσκληση στο κλειστό ΔΤ παρακαλώ στείλτε email στο -

panos.marcoullis@hellenica.net

και δώστε μου ένα τηλέφονο για να σας πάρω να μιλήσουμε. Το ΔΤ δεν θα κοστίσει τίποτα στους συμμετέχοντες. Στο τέλος του ΔΤ θα δωθεί σε όλους τους συμμετέχοντες η ευκαιρία για Trial Period (δωκιμαστική περίοδος) και μετά εγγραφή (subscription).

Χαιρετό την εξουσία... :-)

Πάνος απο Κύπρο.